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| - A place for romantic evening of sweet treats (and talks), casual hot-chocolating with friends, and oh my goodness, a place to experience complete chocolate overload.
I've been hearing about this place for such a long time and have walked past quite a few of its stores on other streets. This time, we finished a meal at Kazu quite close by and came upon this location for some after-dinner dessertness. (Can't celebrate anniversary without chocolates, right?) The interior is warm and classy, decored in red wrappings, ribbons, and decors against a white background. Upon stepping into the store, the displays of chocolate immediately takes over one's view, chocolate lipsticks, chocolates with caramel in tiny jar of cuteness, chocolate lolipops, chocolate bears hugging chocolate hearts ... Yum yum. After being ushered to seats of our choosing, we were presented menus of chocolacious. The menu is quite eclectic, there are meals with crepes, salads and soups, as well as pure desserts like brownies and tiramisus, as well as dessert-meal like chocolate fondues for one (or two). After an agonizing few moments of trying to pick a dessert from too many delicious choices, I got the Fleur de sel caramel petit pot and boyfriend got the Banatella. After settling down and relaxing a few moments, our desserts came. Mine is presented in a tiny jar (petit pot), with mini brownie bites (both white and black) sprinkled on top, followed by a layer of fleur de sel caramel, a layer of cocoa ganache and bottomed by chocolate mousse. I have to confess, I've never been a huge fan of salted caramel but one spoon of the fleur de sel caramel conquered me ever so completely. The creamy texture of the caramel, not sticky and smooth as silk, melts on top of my tongue along with the brownie bites and cocoa ganache, the chocolate mousse by comparison is the less sweet one and fluffier in texture, a perfect complementing taste to the overwhelming (-ly good) sweet taste of the rest of the contents in the petit pot.
Even though I feel just a little bit guilty about the probably hundreds of calories I devoured packed in that little jar and shortly after we definitely sugar crashed, the dessert itself is just heavenly, so heavenly it's almost sinful.
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